Wollishofen

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Wollishofen coat of arms
Coat of arms of Zurich
Wollishofen
district of Zurich
Map of Wollishofen
height 425  m
surface 5.75 km²
Residents 19,225 (2019)
Population density 3343 inhabitants / km²
BFS no. 261-021
Post Code 8038
Urban district District 2 since 1893/1913

Wollishofen is a district of the city of Zurich . The formerly independent municipality Wollishofen was incorporated in 1893 and is today along with Enge and Leimbach the circuit 2 .

coat of arms

Blazon

Split of gold and silver with two red bars

geography

Wollishofen with Üetliberg

Located between Sihl and Lake Zurich , it forms the southern border of the urban area on the left bank of the lake. The lake takes up 28.5% (1.64 km²) of the total area of ​​the quarter. In the south, Wollishofen borders the communities of Adliswil and Kilchberg .

history

The oldest settlers in this area were the pile dwellers : the remains of a pile dwelling village were found in the Haumessergrund . Coin finds from 1910 near the train station and a Roman mosaic floor (today in the State Museum ) suggest a Roman settlement .

In the 5th century, the Alemanni crossed the Rhine and also settled in the Wollishofen area in scattered homesteads between Roman ruins. The name Wollishofen goes back to one of these Alemanni, Wolo . The name Woloshoven is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1227. In 1394 Wollishofen came from the Manesse to the city of Zurich and formed the Obervogtei Wollishofen from 1423 to 1798.

Alt-Wollishofen consisted of individual farms and small groups of houses well into the 19th century. Together with Leimbach and the Enge , it formed one of the 18 inner bailiffs of the city of Zurich, over which two high bailiffs exercised the power of rule. The names of the officials at that time are noted on a bell that was cast in 1702 and that stands in the courtyard of the old church.

Until the end of the 18th century, Wollishofen was almost exclusively inhabited by farmers. They lived from agriculture, animal husbandry and viticulture. The plan from 1788 shows an overview .

The strong development of the suburbs of Zurich in the 19th century brought heavy financial burdens with it. This led to the opinion that only a union with the city of Zurich could put the difficult situation in order. In 1891 the allotment law relating to the «city association» was adopted by the Zurich electorate with a clear majority. The rural village of Wollishofen, on the other hand, clearly refused; his wealthy farmers wanted to remain independent. Your appeal against the law at the federal court was unsuccessful.

The municipality within the Zurich district before the merger in 1893

Wollishofen was incorporated into the city of Zurich against the will of its voters in a cantonal vote on January 1, 1893, together with ten other communities, and from then on formed district 2 with the Enge. The independence gained almost 100 years earlier was thus lost again. The hamlet of Oberleimbach, which at that time still belonged to the municipality, was ceded to the neighboring municipality of Adliswil, to which it still belongs today.

Aerial photo by Walter Mittelholzer (1919). In front left the silk factory, today the red factory . In the center of the picture, Albisstrasse leads up through the Morgental.

Shortly before the Second World War , the Landiwiese was the venue for the national exhibition in which the Swiss were sworn to defend the country. The Saffa island was created for the Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work in 1958.

  • Wollishofen on the Wild map from 1848

  • Wollishofen on an engraving by Heinrich Brupbacher , 1794

  • Wollishofen 1880, looking south

  • Old Wollishofen Church, built in 1702, from the southwest. On the right the former gym of the school building A. In front of the church the old school building Kilchbergstrasse.

  • Kalchbühlstrasse / Widmerstrasse intersection around 1925

Churches

Old church Wollishofen , taken from the new church
New church Wollishofen , view from the southeast

Church history up to the Reformation

In terms of church, Wollishofen was divided into two parts in the Middle Ages: The largest part belonged to Kilchberg , the smaller to St. Peter in the city of Zurich. Wollishofen was mentioned as a branch of Kilchberg as early as 1370. In the year 1281 the first chapel in Wollishofen was mentioned in a document, connected with the dwelling of a female clergyman . In 1369 a chaplain from Kilchberg read a St. Fair. In 1408 Wollishofen was incorporated into the Kappel monastery together with the mother parish of Kilchberg . In the year 1514 a judgment mentioned that Kappel had to cover the choir of the Wollishofen chapel and to keep it in honor. The Reformation was carried out in Wollishofen together with the Kappel Monastery in 1526. A second chapel stood in the watch of Honrein; No further details are known.

Churches today

There are several churches and ecclesiastical buildings in Wollishofen: The Evangelical Reformed Church has two places of worship:

  • The old church Wollishofen , which was built in 1702 as a separate house of prayer for the Wollishofen church , which was built in Kilchberg . In 1764 the porch on the west side was built and in 1787 the new belfry. After various alterations and restorations, the church was placed under monument protection in 1968.
  • The New Church Wollishofen (also: Church on the Egg ) was built in the years 1935–1936 according to plans by the architects Walter Henauer (1880–1975) and Ernst Witschi (1881–1959). The church is raised in a north-south direction on the Egg moraine and can be seen from far around. Because the church is oversized for today's parish, a public ideas competition was held in 2012 for a possible conversion. The KunstKlangKirche project was based there from 2014 to 2018 .

The Roman Catholic Church is represented in Wollishofen with the parish of St. Franziskus:

  • The Church of St. Franziskus was built in the years 1927–1928 according to plans by the architect Joseph Steiner , Schwyz. The church, built in the Romanesque basilica style, has a characteristic round church tower, the shape of which is intended to be reminiscent of the southern home of the church patron Francis of Assisi . It is in a central location near Morgental.

The United Methodist Church owns in Wollishofen

  • the Wesley Chapel , whose name refers to John Wesley (1703–1791), the founder of the Methodist Church. The building complex, designed in neo-Romanesque and Heimat style, consists of a residential building and a chapel with a polygonal tower tower. The architect of the building, built in 1911, was Albert Brändli (1876–1941), Burgdorf . The chapel has been a listed building since 1998.

Economy and Infrastructure

A silk weaving mill was opened around 1720 and several smaller businesses were soon creating new jobs. The great development began in 1885 with the inauguration of the train station and in 1900 with the construction of the electric tram to the Morgental. In July 1928 the line was extended by the Morgental – Albisstrasse section (today Wollishofen ) and the Wollishofen depot at the terminus was put into operation. Today line 7 (station Stettbach – Bahnhofstrasse / HB – Wollishofen) of the Zurich public transport company runs on this route.

Albisstrasse, the work of Zurich's road construction inspector Heinrich Pestalozzi, was built between 1841 and 1845. The sweeping curve at Morgental compensates for the road gradient. With the construction of Albisstrasse and the expansion of the Albis Pass, Zurich was given a fast road connection to Zug .

The Zurich Wollishofen train station, opened in 1875, is one of thirteen SBB train stations in the area of ​​the city of Zurich. The S8 and S24 serve this station. Immediately to the east of the train station is the shipyard of the Zürichsee-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft (ZSG), which is also the company's headquarters.

The Moos lake water works , the first of two municipal lake water works today, was opened in 1914 in Wollishofer Moos on the border with Adliswil.

The Manegg cemetery was established in 1897. The graves of numerous celebrities can be found on it, such as Friedrich Glauser , Alfred Escher , Othmar Schoeck and Aglaja Veteranyi .

The Zurich Youth Hostel is located in Wollishofen .

Neubühl settlement

The Neubühl settlement after completion in 1932

The herringbone-like Werkbundsiedlung Neubühl on the border with Kilchberg, built on a private initiative and for medium- sized companies , is considered to be the most important New Building settlement in Switzerland. It was designed jointly by the architects Max Haefeli , Alfred Roth , Emil Roth , Carl Hubacher , Rudolf Steiger , Werner Max Moser and Paul Artaria .

The actual planning history began with the first remaining sketch, a proposal by the architect Rudolf Steiger on November 12, 1928. Construction work began in the summer of 1930 and in the spring of 1932 the apartments in the third phase of construction were ready for occupancy. In September 1931, the NZZ reported 12,000 people who wanted to see the new quarter.

Attractions

  • District museum
  • Rote Fabrik cultural center
  • The jetty seen from the north end
    On May 1, 2015, the “Cassiopeia footbridge” was opened on the lakeshore. The 281 meter long and 2.8 meter wide footbridge begins at the Rote Fabrik , leads 100 meters out into the lake, around the Wollishofen resort and ends at the former laundry. It is named after the constellation Cassiopeia .

Personalities

literature

  • Emil Stauber: Alt Wollishofen , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1926
  • Episcopal Ordinariate Chur (ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. Chur 1980
  • Rudolf Meier, Fred Winkler: Wollishofen - then and now . Niggli AG, Sulgen 1993, ISBN 3-72120-275-9
  • Building Construction Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development: Enge, Wollishofen, Leimbach . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Zurich 2006 (Baukultur in Zurich, Volume V), ISBN 3-03823-074-X
  • Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: Quartierspiegel Wollishofen . Zurich 2015 ( read online )
  • Presidential Department of the City of Zurich, Statistics City of Zurich: Quartierspiegel Wollishofen . Zurich 2014 (PDF, 2MB)

  • Morgental tram stop

  • Reformed Church and Secondary School «Hans Asper»

Web links

Commons : Wollishofen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Felix Marbach: Zurich-Wollishofen. in: Bischöfliches Ordinariat Chur (Ed.): Schematism of the Diocese of Chur. , P. 276.
  2. ↑ a b Landiwiese. City of Zurich, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ See the following: Robert Schönbächler: Churches and places of worship in the city of Zurich. New Year's Gazette Industriequartier / Aussersihl. Zurich 2013, pp. 48–51.
  4. ↑ project website
  5. ↑ neubuehl.ch: Cooperative Neubühl Zurich / History ( Memento of the original on 21 October 2010 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed June 29, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neubuehl.ch
  6. ↑ An oasis on the outskirts , NZZ, May 17, 2016
  7. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger, May 6, 2015